STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS REVIEW

Star Trek has had a lot of different iterations since the original series, many films, spin-offs, but it always comes back to the Starship Enterprise. The latest Trek show, Strange New Worlds, focuses on some characters from the original 60s series, and these new actors playing them were introduced in Star Trek: Discovery. Now, with Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) commanding the Enterprise, they go back to the format of weekly adventures. This isn’t Kirk’s Enterprise to be sure, but we do have Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) with the hint of more original series characters to come. The story has Pike haunted by a detailed premonition of his fate, originally seen in the 1966 two-parter “The Menagerie”. But adventures will not wait and the crew face up against a much more terrifying version of the Gorn, space pirates, new aliens, alternate realities, warring Romulans, and more. Chris, TC, Jordan, and Eliot engage and hit it.

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CREATED BY: Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet

STARRING: Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun, Bruce Horak, Rebecca Romijn, Adrian Holmes, Dan Jeannotte, Gia Sandhu, Melanie Scrofano, Samantha Smith, Lindy Booth, Ian Ho, Huse Madhavji, Jesse James Keitel, Paul Wesley

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)

Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day,